FreeBSD 5.3 STABLE SMP Kernel

Benjamin Walkenhorst krylon at gmx.net
Thu Dec 2 08:53:55 PST 2004


Ronnie Clark wrote:
> Hello all, 
> 
> I hope what I have is a simple question. 
> 
> I have a dual proc machine, that I have loaded 5.3
> RELEASE on and then updated it to STABLE. While
> reading the Handbook I see where the GENERIC kernel
> has SMP built in via the SMP file in
> /usr/src/sys/i386/conf directory. 
> 
> So, to enable SMP for my custom kernel, do I simply
> need to edit SMP to include my custom kernel name?

 From my kernel config:
# To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed
options         SMP             # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
device          apic            # I/O APIC

Enjoy! =)

Kind regards,
Benjamin


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